
Washington — OSHA has issued $12.7 million in safety and health training grants to 102 nonprofit organizations, through its Susan Harwood Training Grant Program.
The funding helps the supply of training and training on hazard consciousness, avoidance and controls, in addition to the training of staff on their rights and employers on their duties below the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
This spherical of funding was awarded to packages in the classes of focused matter training, training and instructional supplies improvement, and capability constructing.
“Targeted training audiences include small-business employers, limited English proficiency workers, as well as workers identified as illiterate/low literacy, disadvantaged, underserved, low-income, minority and others hard to reach,” OSHA says.
Eligible organizations embody neighborhood and faith-based teams, employer associations, labor unions, joint labor-management associations, Native American tribes, and native and state-sponsored faculties and universities.
The program is known as in honor of the late former director of OSHA’s Office of Risk Assessment. In her 17 years with the division, Harwood performed a key position in company requirements on asbestos, benzene, bloodborne pathogens, lead, cotton mud and formaldehyde.